Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019 kicks off next week in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. We’ve compiled a preview of the panels and presentations that may be of particular interest to those looking for “early Canada” at Congress 2019. Rather than reproduce the program material here, we’ve highlighted individual “early… Continue Reading
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Présentation : L’Institut d’études acadiennes de l’Université de Moncton, le Gregg Centre for Study of War and Society, incluant le Network for the Study of Civilians, Soldiers and Society, et le Département d’histoire de la University of New Brunswick créent un nouveau groupe de recherche bilingue avec l’appui d’une subvention de développement de partenariat du… Continue Reading
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Introduction: The Institut d’études acadiennes at the Université de Moncton, the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, and the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick including the Network for the Study of Civilians, Soldiers and Society are creating a new bilingual research network… Continue Reading
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Lyn Bennett [This is the third in a series of posts on the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database. The entire series can be found here.] A widely used ingredient in meat-based dishes, mushroom catsup (or ketchup) was inspired by a fermented Chinese fish sauce and bears little resemblance to the ubiquitous tomato version. Neither sweet… Continue Reading
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Edith Snook [This is the second in a series of posts on the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database. The entire series can be found here.] The region now known as the Maritime provinces of Canada had before 1800 a diverse population that included Indigenous, French, English, other Europeans, and free and enslaved people of African… Continue Reading
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Edith Snook [This is the first in a series of posts on the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database. The entire series can be found here.] Early Modern Maritime Recipes is a searchable online database that collects recipes made and circulating before 1800 in what is now defined as Canada’s Maritime provinces. The project was directed… Continue Reading
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Wendy Cameron In the 1850s and 1860s parties of assisted British emigrants arrived in Canada to work as servant girls. These young women paved the way for British child migrants now known as Home Children. Taken from situations of dire poverty by child savers in Britain, up to 100,000 Home Children were placed with Canadian… Continue Reading
